A new discovery on the AIDS front may open the door to future awakenings. Researchers are learning how the virus manages to hide while avoiding the deadly killing powers of the various medicines. A new study reveals that the virus hides in certain bone marrow cells. It then reawakens under given circumstances.

What this means is that the findings provide a better understanding of how HIV hides in the body. This could lead to better strategies to kill it or to at least control it. One of the on-going mysteries has been to wonder where the virus hides when it is not present in the blood. Researchers have long suspected that the hiding place is the bone marrow which creates the blood cells.

Still, it remains, although it sounds simple, that killing off all of the blood-producing marrow cells would be lethal to humans. Perhaps a new strategy shall be to target only the latently infected bone marrow cells. Still, finding that there is a hiding place in the bone marrow is just a first step. It is reported that years of research must still be completed in order to reach the next steps. Still, knowing that bone marrow is a hiding place is a great discovery.